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pine, and that the election might be made according to the cus tom of the Holy Catholic Church, he applied to his Holiness Pope Leo XII. to confirm this election, with which request his Holiness has been pleased to comply. Boston Papers of the 18th November have been re• ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house, The following are extracts : LATE AND L;TORTANT 111.031 COLOMBIA.—By the Gertrude from Porte Cavello, a gentleman of this city has received a letter from hie friend at La Guayra, dated Oct. 17, communicating the important intelligence that Paez is retracing his steps, and that the insurteetionary movements in Venezuela are about to subside of their own accord without even the interference of the General Government. The following are extracts:— LA GUATRA, OcT. 17.—Great changes, and for the better, have taken place; the leaders and promoters of the faction are, by their recent acts, convinced that the people are not to be ruled, or even urged into civil war, and that their devotion is not so absolute as in the first instance their vanity led them to suppose ; at the meeting of the people called by order of General Paez upon his arrival at Caraccas, it was resolved to discharge the forces 'raised for defence or other purposes, that a deputation of three of the most respectable men in Caraccas be forthwith dis patched to Bogota, humbly to represent the wishes of Vene , zuela--in short, to place things as near as possible as they stood ere this unfortunate event took place. All this has been done, and the consequence is, confidence is about to be restored. We cer tainly consider the affair quite at an end. So far as concerns the power of the general Government in this district, Bolivar is ab solute in the hearts of the people; we have certain accounts of hie being on his way, and from what has taken place in affairs, and the great intimacy that subsists between Paez and Madame Bolivar, some of the wise ones augur, nay assert as a fact, that Paez and Bolivar have a perfect understanding, but that great sa crifices are to be made,—names are mentioned, &c. Upon this we are silent, congratulating ourselves on the happy tamination of this Jain—New Vork Gazette. The following has been received at Lloyd's this morning, dated Portsmouth, 14th inst. : Arrived the Fanny Voase, Lister, from Oporto, sailed the 7th jug. She has brought passengers, who report the Spanish Am hattador was ordered away from Lisbon at 24 hours notice, but le 11 441 petitioned to remain a few days as a private individual. The Rebels had pillaged, burnt, and destroyed the town of Bra ganca, and ill-treated the inhabitants. The Marquis of Chaves, alias Silveira, the Commander of the Rebels, had reached Miran dolls, according to report, and fears were entertained that they would attack Oporto. It was likewise reported that the Ministers of State, with the exception of two, had proved faithless. Nina English vessels were left at Oporto. The following letter was received from Portsmouth Yesterday PORTSIIIOUTM, DEC. IS. "His Majesty's ship Alligator, 28 guns, Captain Chads, arri ved this afternoon from the East Indies. Left Madras on the 3d of August, Trincomalee on the Ist September, and the Cape of Good Hope 48 days since, bringing dispatches and letters from ~.t h tle places. No news of any great importance. No specie.— The 2d division of the army had arrived at Madras from Rangooon. " Orders came to-day to embark the 4th Regiment of Foot, now la this garriso n , on b oar d th e R omne y, 50 g un s , Capt. Lockyer, or Lisbon. They go on board at day=light to-morrow. " His Majesty's ship Melville, 74 guns, Captain Hill, ordered It!, take troops to Lisbon, has, by great exertions, been got ready *". sea. She will go out of harbour to-morrow. A part of the 63 d Regiment, which is to come in on Friday and Saturday, is to embark in her. " The first division of the Guards is to march in on Sunday and Monday, to embark in the Wellesley, 74, for Lisbon. "The Royal Horse Artillery, 900 men, ate quite ready for active service. They expect orders to embark immediately. " As much activity and zeal prevail in our public departments as at the commencement of hostilities which were likely to last for another quarter of a century." By letters received from Halifax, dated Nov. 20, we learn that Captain WALLIS, of the Niemen, has been invalided ; Captain CANNING, of the Grass hopper, had been promoted into the Niemen ; and Lieuten an t COURTENAY BOYLE, son of the Hon. Commissioner BOYLE, had been promoted to the rank of Commander into the Grasshopper. It was our painful duty about a fortnight ago to Mention the alarming state of the health of the Mar 91iis of HASTINGS, and the melancholy duty devolved open us last night of recording the death of that dis tinguished person. By a letter which we have re ceived from Naples, dated the 30th of November, we !earn that the Noble Marquis died on board his Ma- Jeuy's ship Revenge on the 28th, and that his re m,ains were to be conveyed by his Majesty's ship - iriarine, Capt. FITZCL A RENCE, to Malta, for inter inent, in conformity with the wishes his Lordship had expressed. Tlie Marchioness of HASTINGS would te,main a t N ap l es f or some t i me . Vi ce -Ad m i ra l Si r k. NEALE, in the Revenge, was to proceed on the 3d Inst. to Marseilles. The numberless inconsistencies which the present law of libel daily brings forth, make us look with more than common attention to this branch of our jurispru dence. That a party libelled should he permitted to seek his remedy against the several persons who have, by their publications, disseminated the libel, does ap- Pear, at first.sight, but little more than common jus tice. But, on reflexion, it will be found to bring with 't a series of extensive evils, that seem loudly to de- I t ''''lld a cu re . Th e par ti es most immediately affected "Y this state of the law are the public journalists, who 14 4 a task imposed upon them, at all times suf ficiently labo r i ous an d anx i ous without being loaded with this additional responsibility ; a re sponsibility, be it known, without bounds, and w hich therefore the longest and weightiest purse cannot withstand. Th e i r duty to the public is to give them the current new s of the day, and as long as that current news appears ill the shape of original articles of any particular j ourna l , that journal and its Propri e t ors and Editor, have always disdained to shrink from any responsibility, and have held themselv e s at all times liable to vindicate the truth of the statement, or t o make amends to any injured party by a counter statement co-extensive in numbers with the statement complained o f. Th e pu bli c j ourna li sts , h owever, do loudly and justly complain, that all who copy an articl e from another journal, should be made respon sible for the contents of that article, when they annex to it the name of the journal from which it was copied. .They do complain of this, because they conceive the law to this respect does not proceed upon the immutable prin ciples of justice , andis at variance with the object of a I tbelled party in seeking redress in a Court of Law, viz. the vindication of his character. Every person who mul t FiPlies his actions against the different journals which P ave published the arti c l e h e comp l a i ns of; seems to !Word p a ground for the slander to rest upon, by show '''g himself more anxious to make a trade of his dia ., racter, than to seek to vindic a t e it f rom d etract i on and t I btl• In all actions for libels it is necessary to charge 1 7 I : 1 14 kt against the libeller. Now' thi s a ll egat i on t h e t u dgea hold ma y b e presumed, f rom t h e simp l e f act that a libel published. By this sort of violent pre , 44 . ~ tli Ption' We often see that one of two persons, utter atr a ,- ngerkto one another, the existence ofneither of whom L ah ,nol to the other at the time the libel was pub , eu, is 'convicted of entertaining malice towards the other, in the very teeth of evidence and of every rea sonable presumption to the contrary. This we do af firm is unjust, and do stoutly maintain, that at least the existence of some ill-will, some misunderstanding, however slight, between the two, should be shown before the Jury is instructed to take that for granted which, in nine out of every ten cases, really does not exist. Verbal slander may be repeated by thousands with impunity, subject to the condition of naming the ori ginal author at the time. Now, here is a fine oppor tunity for malice to work upon. It repeats the slander with industrious activity, and dissemi nates it through the immediate neighbourhood of its victim with rapid circulation ; and yet in this case this malicious slanderer shall escape, whilst, under similar circumstances in libels, the first and every subsequent publisher is held responsible, although no malice did or could exist. What great difference is there between a libel and slander, that so great, so strong a limit is placed to the responsibi lity of the repeaters of a tale, but is denied to the publishers of printed libels ? Truth is said (perhaps justly) to be a libel. A plea of truth, however, is allowed to go in mitigation of damages, but not to be a full answer to the action, and is none at all to an indictment. If a plea of truth is to be allowed at all, it ought to be permitted to have a full operation, and be allowed to be a perfect answer to any action or indictment, whether for libel or slan der. It would also only be just to permit the plea to state generally, that all or certain specified parts of a libel or of verbal slander are true, without com pelling the plaintiff to allege the truth of the libel in the same words as the libel itself was written. This would be a decided improvement in the law, and one against which no possible objection can be urged. If it shall be deemed improper to limit the respon sibility in cases of libel in the same manner as in cases of verbal slander, then we say that some protection should be gran t e d aga i ns t th e extort i on o f low attor nies, who very frequently bring actions against innocent parties who, in the course 'of their employment as pub lic journalists, have unwittingly published an article which reflects, perhaps truly, on this or that individual. Such actions are only brought for the sake of the costs which a verdict, however small the damages may be, causes the defendant to pay. 'We therefore wish that actions for libels should be placed on a similar footing with many ac tions of trespass, where the plaintiff is not allowed to recover any greater costs than damages. Such a provision would at all events operate as a restraint, and prevent parties from multiplying actions for the same libel, except in eases where the , legitimate object, " vin dication of priv a t e 'character, is really and truly ill view. City, Two o'Clock. Our City Reporter states, that information has been received from Paris, which positively mentions that our Ambassador there has had an interview with VILLELE on the affltirs 'of Portugal. Lord GRAN vIL LE informed VILLELE that it was the determina tion of the British Government to land five thousand British troops at Lisbon. VILLELE expressed him self much satisfied in the conduct of the English Government, and immediately entered into an ar rangement with Lord GRANVILLE on the subject. He also states that the accounts by private letters from Oporto to the 7th inst. are not quite so alarm ing as at first reported. The alarm which had ex isted, much abated on its being known that the British Troops were landing at Lisbon from Gibraltar, and that more were expected.--The insurgents had only reached Mirandola, which is about 100 miles from Oporto. Reports are said to have existed in Paris that the Royalists had been de feated. We give all these as rumours of the day only. A notice of a tender from the principal Officers and Commis sioners of hie Majesty's Navy, has been posted at Lloyd's; for the conveyance of 400 and 500 tone of ordnance stores and provisions for Gibraltar. Some exaggerated statements have appeared respecting the amount of military force at present kept up in Spain by France. We learn, upon good authority, that the whole number of French troops actually distributed in the following places does not exceed eleven thousand men, viz. :—Cadiz, Yola, Chiclana, Port Royal, Port St. Mary, Xeres, San Lucar, and other small towns. Maritime Averages from the returns received in the week ended Dec. 9:—wheat 565. sd.—Barley Sic. id.—Oats SOs. 9d.—Rye 4ls. 3d......8eans 525. 9d.—Pease 528. 4d. THE FUNDS. CITY, (Tats Day), Twelve o' Cluck. The agitation in the British Funds still continues; Consols opened this morning at 78, and went down subsequently to 774, they have since been rather better, and are quoted at 774 b ; a defaulter of some importance has been declared in the English market. In the present state of affairs it is extremely difficult to give the actual prices, as different shades of quotations are men tioned at the same time, as they are Bulls or Bears ; Exchequer Bills are 2 4 pm. To-day is settling day in the Foreign Funds, and the dealers appear very shy of each other ; some failures are anticipated from the heavy fluctuations that have taken place, amounting, in several instances, to 10 and 11 per Cent. ; five or six persons have already declared their inability to meet their en gagements, and we fear still further mischief; a great deal of for bearance will be required to let the present aceount be settled without some heavy defalcations ; Mexican Bonds have been 594 60, but have since been 61, buyers ; Colombian are now 31, buyers ; Greek are quoted at 14 16 ; in this latter the halt - year's dividend, being the last in hand, is advertised to be paid by Messrs. Ricardo; Portuguese are 65 7 ; and Spanish, 124 13. The price of shares are nominal, and sales, if effected, must be made at considerably lower rates than the quotations given in the list. Exchequer Bills, 2 4 pm. FotElow FuNns.—Brazilian, 58 60; Buenos Ayres, 55 60; Chilian, 35 40 ; Danish, 524 34 ; Colombian, 1824, 30 2 ; Mexican 5 per Cent., 48 50 ; Ditto 6 per Cent , 594 604 ; Peruvian, 28 30 ; Portuguese, 65 7 ; Greek, 14 16 ; Russian, 79 80; Spanish, 124 13.. 10 5 4 I i i s si . x ; s. Te A ai ng d lo ei 35 30 dis. ; United Mexican, 12 Monte, 140 60 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 65 70 • Bolivar, 2 pm. ; Colombian, 10 12 pin. ; B raz ili an , par, pm. ' per Share. _ Two a' Clock. Consols have improved to iN, and considerable business has been transacted. This ia by Rome attributed to the na ture of the account, whilst others seem to imagine the first alarm relative to the continuance of peace is wearing away, and men connected with the Funds begin to calculate somewhat more reasonably. 4 Per Ce n t s , 1826, 92j. ; India Bonds 910 ; Exchequer , xchiee F oreig n Bills 1 4 premium. Tl se . n Punch have al s o advanced from 2 to 3 per Cent.; from the sam e cau s 33 a —Mexican s ar e up to 63i 4. 'Colombian to Some say this originates in the purchases made of the account of those parties, who a re una bl e to mee t their accounts. Consols, 79, bu y THREE 0' CLOCK ers, the mar k et l oo ki ng we ll. FOUR O'CLOCK-...CLOSING PRICES. Consuls ---- Danish Bonds 56 Do: fbr Ac. 791 Greek Do. 1825 17 Brazilian Bonds 584- Mexican Do. 1825, 64} Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. 30 Chilian Do. Russian Do. 80 Columbian, 1824, 33} Spanish Do. 12i SMITHFIELD MARKET.—(Tura DAT.) This day's market exhibited as great a supply of Beasts as is frequently seen in it on a Monday in the spri ng of the year, and amongst them a good many Oxen, Steers, and Heifers, of very superior quality ; it was also well supplied 'with other kinds of fat stock. Prime Beef sold, with a degree of briakense, at from 2d. to 6tl. per stone beyond Monday's quotation., from which Mutton, rather receded ; in prim of middling and inferior Beet; Veal, and Pork, no alteration. PRICES PIP. STONE OF ELBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL& s. d. to s. d. s. d. to e. d. Inferior Beasts 2 8 3 2 South Down Wethers ."' 3lO 4 2 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Large coarse Calvea.„, - 3 6 4 0 Prime large Oxen. 54'5 8 Prime 'roan ditto 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, Ise. s 4 6 6 Large Hogs ........ 310 4 2 Inferior Sheep 2lO 3 C Small Porkers ...... . ato 5 2 Second quality ditto.„ 3 2 3 6 Suckling Ca1ve5...123. to 325. each. Coarse-woolletl ditto 3 8 910 Quarter old Pigs ..10a to 16s. each. There were no iii Cows, of even middling quality, in the market. SUPPLY, AS TER CLERICS STATEMENT. I Sheep. Calves. I rigs' 5,750 165 100 Beasts. 1,39 t - --- -- NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL MARKETS. At per atOne, by the Carcats. a. d. to s. d• a. d. tea. d. Beef ... Mutton 2 6 2 6 Pork ........................ 3 6 6 0 LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—(This Dar.) INJUNCTION. ALDERSON v. Mr. KNIGHT applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant from selling, mortgaging, or otherwise encumbering the land in the Bill mentioned, and also from pledging 'or depositing a grant of license from the Commissioners efworks and forests for mining and working under the surface of said lands. It appeared, that previous to November 1825, a partnership subsisted between the parties for working certain chalk and gravel pits on the lands in question. In November 1824 the partnership was dissolved, and late in that month a commission of bankruptcy issued against the plaintiff. His friends, however, being anxious to re-establish him in business, offered to advance him a sum of money, provided the defendant would consent to take him again into partnership. The defendant did consent, and between the declaration of bankruptcy and the obtaining his cer tificate, the plaintiff advanced the money. He was at the same time desirous of having it secured, to this the defendant objected on the grounds, that the plaintiff bad not yet obtained his certifi cate. In June last, at a meeting of the friends of the parties, two drafts were prepared, one of an assignment to trustees of the pits, and the other of a deed of partnership between the plain tiff and the defendant, in which it was provided, that as soon as the plaintiff should contribute to the partnership fund as much as would, with his former advance, amount to 2,300 pounds, he should be entitled to have security for that sum by way of mortgage on the lands, and en the grant of license for working the chalk and gravel pits ; at the foot of these drafts there were memoranda that deeds were to be executed to give effect to these arrangements; the plaintiff had since obtained his certificate, and swears that lie brought into the partnership more than the required sum ; lie made repeated application to the de fendant to fulfil his part of the engagement; the defendant, how ever, merely deposited the lease of the lands with the trustees, but refused to give up the grant and license from the Commis sioners of woodland forests to work under the surface; the plaintiff further states that the defendant has frequently threatened to assign the land, and to pledge and deposit the grant and license. The Vres-CtraticEtton.—l doubt whether he can transfer any interest by assigning the grant—he certainly cannot part with the legal estate whilst you have the deed. I suppose you merely want to prevent the necessity of introducing into 3our suit the additional party, who must spring up in case the threatened as signment takes place. Take the injunction, but it is not worth the parchment.--Injunction granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(Ttas DAY.) GOLDING V. WEN. When this case came on only three of the Special Jurymen who were appointed to try it answered to their names; it was con sequently deferred, and the nine Jurymen who did not attend were fined. The Court was occupied during the rest of the morning, wit a case of no public interest. PREROGATIVE COURT.—(Tats DAY.) (Before Sir J. McHott..) The regular business of the Court cot having been disposed of within the Term, after Sittings were appointed, the first of which was fixed for this day. WESTMEATH V. vritsilizArit. The reading of the documents and exhibits which were intro duced in this case,.baving been goue through, after occupying the Court for the greater part of two days, the arguments of Counsel were. commenced. Dr. Jetosua, as counsel for Lord Westmeath, appeared to support the decision of the Consistory Court, which was now appealed from. The learned Counsel said that the suit was originally instituted by Lord Westmeath, for the restora tion of conjugal rights. His Lordship's suit was met by her Ladyship, with a suit fir a divorce, upon the grounds of crnelty and adultery, and after being fully argued, before the Judge of the Consistory Court, it was decreed that her Ladyship was not entitled to the relief for which she prayed ; and that her suit must be dismissed. Under these circumstances, her Ladyship applied to this Court; but he contended that the evi deuce furnished no sufficient reasons to Induce the Court to re verse the judgment of Sir C. Robinson. The charge against his Lordship was two-fold. He was charged with inflicting personal violence upon his Lady, and carrying on an adulterous intercourse with other women. The charge of cruelty depended almost en tirely upon the evidence of Sarah Mackenzie, with whom Lady Westmeath closely identified herself. The evidence of this witness, however, was contradicted in the most distinct manner by Lady Weatmoath's letters. Immediately subsequent to the period at which LordWestmeath was charged with violently assaulting her Ladyship her Ladyship's letters proved, that she was living with her Lord on the most friendly terms, and that he evinced the greatest kind ness of disposition towards her. It did appear that the parties frequently quarrelled, and these quarrels, upon almost every occasion, arose from one circumstance which appeared to have taken the strongest hold upon Lady Westmeath's mind. It ap peared that Lord Westmeath bad two natural children before his marriage, and Lady Westmeath lost no opportunity of upbraiding him with this circumstance, which was the source of continued irritation. There were altercations and squabbles between the parties, but there was no proof that Lord Westmeath had ever in flicted such cruelty upon Lady Westmeath, as could be consider ed to have endangered her life, or affected her health.— These were the only legal grounds upon which the Court could pronounce for a divorce by reason of cruelty ; and as to the charge of adultery, it MS so weakly sustained at the outset, and so completely negatived in the progress of the cause, that he understood it was but little if at all relied upon by his Learned Friends at the other side. The Court was aware that some of the individuals originally produced to support the charge of adultery were found guilty of conspiracy and perjury. Without remarking more at length on this part of the case, he could not help referring, especially to the evidence of Lady Salisbury, the mother of the Marchioness of Westmeath. Lady Salisbury's evi dence was to the effect, that she was i■ habits of constant inter counie with the parties from the period of their marriage up to the time of their separation, and that Lsdy West meath had never complained to her of the cruelty and violence which she now imputed to Lord Westmeath.— Lady Salisbury's evidence, it seemed, was displeasing to the Mar• • chioness of Westmeath. She•hed a jointure of 1,300/. per an num, independent of his Lordship, from whom she desired to se parate herself, and so ardent was she in the pursuit of this favourite object, that she folgot the sacred ties of nature, and suggested the most abominable insinuations against her own mother. If any thing was wanting to prove the character of Lady Westmeath, and the method. to which she would resort to effect her purposes, it was to be found in the cruel interrogatory put by Lady Westmeath to her own mother. The interrogatory was to this effect :—Did not Lord Westmeath threaten if you did not give such evidence as he desired, he would expose some secret particulars of your conduct during the last forty years, with which he was acquainted ? The answer to this interrogatory, which in sinuated that Lady Salisbury committed perjury, was a decided negative ; but with what temper and spirit must Lady Westmeath have carried on the suit, when she instructed her agents to put such an interrogatory to her mother? From all the circumstances, it was evident that Lady Westmeath had only recently thought of coupling a charge of legal cruelty with transactions, which, upon their occurrence she did not seem to conceive as matters of any moment, or calling for such a decided step as a separation from her husband. The immediate occurrence which caused the separation, the Court would perceive, did not involve any charge of serious misconduct on Lord Westmeath. Lady IVestmeath had taken a house in Felten-street, in which Lord Westmeath, with his own consent, had separate apartments. Her Ladyship stipulated that she should have the entire management of the establishment, Which consisted of ten servants, and only one groom was allowed to attend upon his Lordship. Such a situation was calculated to rouse the pride, anti excite the temper of any man. It had that effect upon Lord Westmeath, and Olson some occasion when he felt that one of the female ser vants had misconducted herself, he declared that he would not permit any separate establishments in the house for the future, and upon the servant before alluded to, persist ing in refusing to let his Lordship have some papers which he desired, he broke open a safe where those papers were kept. Lady Westmeath was not present during this occurrence, but on becoming acquainted with it she protested that she would not live any longer in the same house with Lord Westmeath; and from that period the parties ceased to cohabit. The Court would per ceive that here there were no grounds for a legal separation, any more than in the antecedent eau which were pleaded. Under all the circumstances, he submitted that the Court was bound to confirm the decree of the Court below. Dr. Puittastoste followed on the same side, and insisted that the evidence furnished abundant proofs that although Lord West math might be subject to an irritable and impatient temper, he was a man of unbounded good nature, and that Lady Westmeath, i s s aw the !cut, was a lady of an uncommonly warns temper. Drs- LIJIMMNGTON and ADAMS, were to be heard tosmerrow for the Apellant (Lady Westmeath.) LORD CLANRICARDE—Thi s No b le L or d, in his q uality of Under-S ecretary of State, has all South America eon fided to his official management. ._ihNin Nvening Post. DEPTFORD DOCK YARD. (THIS DAY, 12 o'CLocx.) The Guards arrived here at 11 o'clock this forenoon, and are now all on board and on the move. The vessels in which they are embarked, for conveyance to the Nore, are to he towed down the River by steam boats. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. This morning about 10 o'clock, his Grace the Duke of Wel lington, accompanied by a military officer of rank, left his resi dence in his travelling carriage, attended by a single outrider. No sooner was it made known that the gallant Duke had departed from Apsley House, before a report prevailed that his Grace had left town for the purpose of taking the command of the British army in Portugal. The carriage proceeded down Grosvenor Place, in the direction towards - Vauxhall Bridge, at a very rapid pace. His Grace looked remarkably well - , and wore a travelling dress. MOVEMENTS OF THE GUARDS FOR PORTUGAL. At half-past eight o'clock this morning, the Ist Battalion of the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards, consisting of about 6bo men, left their barracks at Knightsbridge, and proceeded in march ing order to the Bird-cage-walk,lii St. James's-park, where the Battalion halted for a few minutes, and being there joined by their respective commanding Officers, they were marched off the ground for their destination amidst the shouts of the populace, and three buzzes from their comrades. The Battalion is a re markable fine body of men, and appeared in the highest spirits on taking leave of their friends. IMPORTANT TO MARINERS. (From the Boston American Paper.) HAvaNNatt, Oer. 26.—1 discoiered a rock off the Hole in the Wall, long. by chronometer, 76. 56. lat. 25. 52. N. fifteen minutes after I made the Hole in the Wall, W. 1. 4. S. by com pass distance' 14 miles. It appeared to me to be about 10 yards long, and could not have been more than three feet under water. I ran the brig within 200 yards of it ; not having a small boat on board, I could not ascertain its ezat situation. I have called it the Clio Rork. There was a regular break over it, which would b, taken for the cape of a sea in heavy weather. JOSEPH KIRK, • Captain of the Clio, of Philadelphia. BANKRUPTS' HALL—(Tms DAY.) MR. ELLISTON. Mr. Elliston, the late patentee of Drury lane Theatre, whose namt appeared in the Gazette last week as a bookseller, made 'his first surrender t• the Commissioners of Bankrupts this day. The surrender was of consequence inconsiderable--a "a thing of shreds and patches"—as it is scarcely a fortnight since a sale of all the bankrupt's property, pictures, books, and household furni. ture, took place at hie residence in Word-road. ROYAL SOCIETY. We omitted het week by mistake our report of the Meeting on Thursday the 7th, but that Meeting was almost entirely occu pied by reading the minutes of the last, comprising Mir H. Davy's Address at the Anniversay, of which we have already given an account. There was also read a paper by Dr. John Davy, on the composition of James's Powder.. On Thursday the 14th, a paper was communicated by Mr. Snow Harris, of Plymouth, on the relative conducting powers of diffe rent metals for electricity. These powers were measured by the degree of heat produced on passing the discharge of a battery, through wires of the same size formed of the different metals. The degree of heat developed in each, is different in some inverse ratio to its conducting power. The heat was ascertained by bring ing the points of discharge within a hollow glass sphere, which formed the bulb of au air thermometer ;—the expansion of the contained air being measured in a tube opening into a bulb. A vaicty of different metals and alloys were tried in this way, and the numerical results given in a table. M. Charles Lucien Buouaparte, Prince de Masignano, was present at the Meeting. SUN-OFFICE, Foun O'CLOCK. A variety of very favonrablireportaiare in circyla lion in the City, said to have arrived by several ex presses from Paris, one of which is, that the two Go vernments perfectly understand each other on the measures which the British Government is taking with regard to Spain, and that our Ambassador has met the French Minister, and has received such proofs of the amicable feeling of the French Govern ment, that no alarm need be entertained on the score of difference with France—thus FERDINAND will be left to himself. Consols are on the rise, and are at this moment 79i buyers, the Market still looking up. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—Dee. 11. A very dull day, and a thin attendance. Scarcely any thing was done till towards the close, when a few heavy bets were made against some of the outsiders. The beta against lots mentioned below must not be taken as a guide to the odds, as they were made with i eference to the books of the parties. DERBY. 10 to 1 apt Tatler 20 to 1 apt Gustavus IS to I apt Webb 22 to 1 apt Manselnks" 14 to I apt Espagnolle 22 to I apt Dauntless IS to 1 apt Catherine 25 to 1 apt Dahlia 1, to 1 apt Elfrid 25 to 1 apt Augusta 20 to I apt Trumpeter ,SOto 1 agst Turcoman 1,000 to 20 apt each of the six following horaes:—Antar, Gamelius, Protestant, Cat, Eliza Teazle, and Lord Ailesbury'a colt.—taken by a gentleman in one bet. OARS. 1 to 2 apt Maria 2 to 1 apt Totteridge 2 to 1 agat Brown Duchess 4 to 1 apt Souvenir 18 to 1 agst Translation 22 to 1 agst Lunacy'' 25 to 1 apt Scornful 25 to 1 agst Morel f. —No betting. ins (o) Were taken. Sr. Lace; IR.- Thou marked tir THE MARKETS. CORN-EXCHANGE..(Ttits DAY.) The arrivals of all kinds of Grain this week are good, and of Flour considerable. The Wheat trade remains in a dull state at Monday's prices. Barley for malting meets more demand, and is rather dearer. Beans and Pease find a slow sale at last quota tions. The quantity of Oats for sale is increasing, and there is a dull sale for this article today at Monday's prices. - ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats, I Flour. 3,300 qrs. 4,1,0qr5. DSO qrs. I B,looseks. _ _ English Irish Foreign LIM 1 23,%50 RUMFORD MARKET.—Det. R. i7d to s d d. to s. d. Beef 3 8 5 0 Veal .................... S 6 4 8 Mutton 3 4 4 Pork ... ........... ' 3 8 410 Suckling Calves from 14e. to3oo. ; Quarter °4lESsii;. to 14s. each , Supply numerous, and, in great part, of indifferent quality, trade with very dulL all but the best Beef (prime there was none) FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. WINDSOR, DEC. 14.—Yesterday his M AJESTY was engaged the whole of the forenoon, and until two o'clock in the afternoon, with public business, when he forwarded cue of the Messengers - in waiting from the Royal Lodge, with despatches for the Home and Foreign Departments. At half-past two o'clock his MAJESTY entered his phaeton, followed by pot of his suite, in the double-bodied phaeton, and took nearly two hours' exercise in the Great Park. It 'is expected that his MAJESTY will . leave the Royal Lodge on Saturday. for St. James's Palace, where he will hold a Council, and receive the Re corder's Report, and that he will return in the even. ing to the Royal Lodge to dinner. It is said that his MAJESTY intends leaving the Royal Lodge the first week in the ensuing month for the Pavilion at Brighten►, but no decisive order has been yet issued to that edict. This afternoon, at half -past two o'clock, his MA. 1 ESTY again visited the Castle and inspected the works. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Fitzroy Scinter , set, were yesterday, at Woolwich, inspecting the prepetatione which are making, in the Royal Arsenal, to embark the eqttipa tnente, destined for Portugal. The Earl of Westn►orl ind visited the Duke of York yesterday. The Marquis de Pahnella, the Portuguese Arnim!". sador, transacted husinels yesterday with Air. Secretary Canning / et his office in Downing -street. . Earl Bathurst, Mr. Wynn, and Mr. ,Huskisson, had a consultation yesterday at the. Foreign Office, with Mr. Se cretary Canning. The Countess of Essex entertained yesterday the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and a select patty to dime* lit her house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square ; in the evening bee Ladyship had a card party. Lord and Lady F. L. Gower leave town to-morrow, for Lord Wharncliffes seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Monsignano, was present at the Meeting of the Zoological Club of the Monona So ciety on Tuesday evening. Amu VA Ls.—The Duchess of Bedford and family, at Camden Hill from Brighton ; the Dowager Marchioness of Sa lisbury, in Arlingtoe-street, from Hartfield ; Lord Lynedoch, at his seat, Cosgrove Priory, from the Marquis of Anglesey's seat, at Beaudesert, Staffordshire ; the Rev. Mr. Austen and rattily, af. Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat in Wilts; the Rev. George ‘Vaddington, and Mrs. and Miss Waddington, at fhe St. George's hotel, Alhemarle-street, from Lord Somers's seat, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire ; Lady Lovaine and the Hon. Miss Percy, at Read's Hotel, LoWer Grosvenor -street, from Brighton ; John Arkwright, Esq., at ditto, from his seat Hampton Court, Herefordshire ; Mrs. Paul Methuen, at ditto, from Hastings ; Charles Arkwright, Esq., at ditto, from his seat in Derbyshire; Admiral Sir George Eyre,!at the Brunswick Hotel, Jernsyn-street, (late Blake's) from South America ; Mr. and Miss Lister, and Mr. J. Lister, at ditto, from Lincolnshire ; Nugent, Esq. and Mrs. Nugent, at ditto, General Coglan and Mrs. Coglan, at ditto. DEPARTURES.---The Marquis of Salisbury, from Hatfield, for Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart.'s, seat, in Suffolk ; th• Earl and Countess of Clare, from Cheltenham, to the Marquis of Exeter's scat, Butleigh, Lincolnshire,. ; Mr. cud Mrs. Dolphin and family, from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's -street, from their seat in Gloucestershire ; Captain and Mrs. Hughes, for Brighton ; Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond- street, fur his seat, Sprotborough, York•4hire ; Lord Acheson, from the , Brunswick llotel, Mr. Sinclair is at present performing in Edinburgh. An elopement from \Vainfleet took place on Tues day : the young pair, on their way to the North, passed through Stamford.--Lincoln Mercury. The intended graini ceremony of laying the first itolle of the St. James's-street Pandemonium has, we understand, been dispensed with; hen having acquired notoriety enough already. Mr. Ward, the acting Manager at the ManChestel Theatre-royal, is at length retiring. He has disposed of his share in the lessees property in the concern, to lifessrs. Lewis sod Banks, and ceases to have tily farther interest in the theatre, est cept that of a proprietor.—Manchester Chronicle, N'Ve are gratified to learn that the hpleudid speech of Mr. Canning, 011 the King's Message, will be forthwith pre malted to the public in a corrected shape ; together with one vered at a dinner given to that Bight lion. Gent:eman, by th♦ British merchants at Lisbon, in 1814 4 and which has never yet been published. The preparations for the erection of the King's Statue have at length commenced. On Saturday last the work men, under the direction of Mr. W. Ranger, began - excavating the ground on the Steins for the foundation of the pedestal, which will be five feet high, the apex of the statue being 21 feet front the ground, a height that renders it absolutely necessary the statue should be placed some distance from the spectator. We have re ceived from a correspondent, who signs himself Philo-teelintie, a long letter, recommending that tlw statue should be placed in the centre of the footway leading from Castle-square to St. James's street. We have not room for its insertion; and as the site hes been chosen tinder the immediate direction of Mr. Chantroy, we can scarcely believe he should select any which was not appro priated for the purpose.- 7 /3righton Gazette. Notices yet continue to be posted up in the town of Athlone and neighbourhood, threatening destruction to any Roman Catholics who deal with a notehtant elopl:eeper or brewer, &c. The works for the protection of the esplanade at Weymouth, which vat so much injured by the severe storm which occeirred in the month of November, 1824, are now completed, and in such a manner as bids fair to render them in (Mute im pregnable to the effects of wind and tide. '.ll - ie termagant Lady A-- laving► complained to T. Hooke that the " villain" her husband had died and left no will. —.4 Your Ladyship cannot wonder at that," returned the wag, " fur you left him no will Of his own while he wet alive." Straw is become so scarce in some of the western counties, as to be at double its usual price ; and in Devonshire many farmers have been driven to use fern for litter. CURTOUB PIIENOMENON.—Y esterday in the twi light of evening, a hat was observed on Wing in the neighbour hood of this city ;--a circumstance almost unexampled at this seliAoll. —Edinburgh Observer. At Cambeckhill, parish of Irthington, on the 25th ult. after a sho r t illness, Mr. John Bell, aged 85. Jane Bell, wife of the above, died on the 21? d of October last, aged 71. In t h e au t umn of 1805, the vsa tapped for the dropsy (with which disease she had been many years :ircvious to that time afflicted), by M,. James, surgeon, of Carlisle, wh en h e too k f rom her thirty-six quarts of water ;li o n that period she underwent the operation forty-seven times, all which she bore with great Wien" and resignation ; and teas mostly capable of walking about, and working at her needle, &c. till within a few days of her death. E who ryas ilfi rs r i ' i ° nn (l ie l t S li T at B c .— pre:lessu ' ec i°l r Ice asked (Dr. the l / in the mastership ashimt e school at N orw i c h ? Ile said it was Barna b us L eman , an h onest ipor a pee r r r) man, but m u ( t ;e vi t ' . i na t l ho n u , t learning, and ve ry tyrannical in his discipline. This an had th e impuderwe to publish, by a half-guinea sub scription, wh a t h e ca ll e d o n ' English Derivative Dictionary,* in quarto. lie pretended to find a derivation for every word in D u t c h, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. No matter what the word was, however culinary or vernacular, ha undertook to find its etymo l og y. Coining to Pig's Petty-tots' (a Norfolk hut it did no t s top hint ; he wrote, as it now stands in the b "' n 'a n y k o , f , idl7atessiin'gettt:-rtifie'ers—t of a socking-pigs), of n - v i v ' h ig i l' ch ' the i l A va u s th a o l r it o t f le tl p ii i s il Di " ; tionary its e:leeway fond." Another instance of wilful fire-raising has occurred i n Ayrshire. This is the third case of the kind in little users t h an a month. The dwelling-house and byre on the farm of Whiteridden, about a mile from the village of Kilbirnie, were con sewed to ashes on the morning of Sunday se'nnight, and that* who discovered the tire attribute it to nothin g but the hand of an incendiary. Robert Love, the tenant, and hie three brothers, Andrew, Archibald, and Daniel, and a man of the name of Mal colm M'lntyre, a relation of theirs, have been taken into custody on suspicion of having sotne concern in this transaction, and th e matter is under the investigation of the Sheriff.--Edinburyli Weekly chronicle.